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‘Villa Moller’

Architect: Adolf Loos
Designed & Built: 1927-1928
Location: Vienna (Austria)

During one of his trips to Vienna in 1927, Adolf Loos accepts the assignment received from textile entrepreneur Hans Moller to design his house in one of the most desirable residential areas of Vienna, Pötzleinsdorf, with excellent exposure, facing south and therefore very sunny, accessible from the north through the Starkfredgasse.

The façade overlooking the street is symmetrical and sober. The back overlooking the garden is the opposite, it staggers progressively generating terraces, it is a “private” front to be used and appreciated only by the owners of the house.

The external load-bearing walls allow the Raumplan to develop inside. The spatial organisation is a work of art similar to Villa Müller in Prague, where floors break and the living room and dining room connect with the other rooms.

Text based on Archweb.com .

Highlights from the 2019 exhibition of architecture scale models of Adolf Loos houses made by japanese professor Yoshio Sakurai at at Winternitzova vila .

All photos by Pavel Hache .
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